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‘Make for me a sanctuary’: Amid Orthodox ire, Tbilisi women read Torah for the first time
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Have the protestors against Israel’s judicial overhaul gone too far?
By Josh Feldman
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Fiction excerpt: The Baron of East Broadway, by Jerome Charyn
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Nazis destroyed Munich’s main synagogue in 1938. Parts of it were just found in the city’s river.
Yiddish Word of the Day
The Bench
Learn an ironic (and slightly critical) expression about yeshiva students who sit all day learning Torah.
Religion won at the Supreme Court, but not as big as people think
By Michael A. Helfand
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